Has anyone seen a HITS system?

[miguelaqui]

I was just wondering if anyone had seen the HITS satellite system.

The service is on G 16.

I was told that it is for cable companies to resell as digital service.

 

[W_Tracy_Parnell]

That is correct. Too bad they don't offer ala carte services to consumers. For info see:

http://www.hits.com/

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yup this is where many cable companies get their "Digital Cable" channels, they just put up pods without the need for any special encoding equipment.

 

[charper1]

http://www.hits.com/

Every time I see/read about HITS it makes me laugh; because of how cable tries to make it sound like satellite is so bad, yet they rarely explain that this is where they get much of their programming from.

 

[dfergie]

Bagdad Bobs are the cable industry all...

 

[charper1]

Oh and add the very fact they helped ruin the BUD home user market, so they wouldn't have meaningful competition directly from the source. With all the new tech surrounding toroidal / multi-LNB dishes; I wish they would start more home user R&D and make a comeback so we could have the choices again!

 

[Claude Greiner]

I have priced their services on headend bids, and they are not very competitive compaired to DISH and Directv

 

[AntAltMike]

The WSNet/Loral/HITS collaboration was a fiasco. I installed my ESPNs at one property using HITS because WSNet offered to give the property more favorable rates for having done so, but realistically, the DRD910 receivers (if I even remember the model number correctly) cost maybe $200 per receiver and were as big as VCRs.

I never looked into it, but I thought that those boxes could be used as subscriber units, and I think that the 30Mhz wide, 4PSK transponders could be "transcoded" into 6Mhz wide, 64QAM cable channels. Even if I had a monopoly on a thousand unit apartment complex, I don't think I'd ever get involved in a fiasco in which I furnished and supported $200 cable boxes for each and every unit.